It has been a decade since the first privacy officers took their jobs in response to the HIPAA privacy rule. A slew of changes since then have added more responsibility, required more skills, and demanded more time of them than anyone could have imagined.

This is the original web version of the practice brief, published in the May 2012 Journal of AHIMA. This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

This webinar addresses the management of legacy systems around patient care and compliance directives, how to manage, retain and maintain legacy systems to limit the amount of lost data, and preserve important data to expedite legal cases and payments.

Healthcare and health IT professionals are entrusted with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of patient data. To provide this protection, these professionals frequently look to commonly accepted technologies and methodologies to safeguard the data while at rest and in transit. One tech....